5 Actors Who Could Play The Flash in ‘Justice League’

The Flash; the Scarlet Speedster; the Fastest Man Alive. DC has once again given the title to Barry Allen for the time being, but every gathering of DC’s greatest heroes has required a man or woman blessed with superspeed.

With the upcoming Justice League movie, it’s practically a guarantee that The Flash will be making his big-screen debut. As always, the question of casting now arises.

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Robert2 years ago

Chris Pine? Wow, I never even thought about that. He would be perfect!

I like Chris Pine as Flash, it wouldn’t be far off from his Capt. Kirk and I think Armie Hammer could be a good Batman. Wonder Woman is a tough role to cast, but Olivia Wilde would be fine… Bring back Reynolds as GL or recast for John Stewart in which case I would go with maybe Anthony Mackie…

I would be fine with all your picks. I think I’d like Pine the most. But my favourite choice would be Gosling as the Flash. I’m not shure if he is affordable. But I think he would be awesome. He can be serious and funny. He Show both. And he has the body and look to be great in a tight red suit.

Lars and the real girl (2007). But yeah. He would just be my personal choice. We will see how it turns out in the end. He’s definitely not the funniest person, or at least doesn’t seems to be. But i’m sure he would pull that off.

I’ve wanted Ryan Reynolds to play Barry Allen for a long time. I was downright pissed when he was chosen for Hal Jordan. That’s BS casting right there (along with a BS movie). I wanted Chris Pine for Hal Jordan.

IMHO Liam could pull it off. A little tall at 6’2 but not a deal breaker. Key points being his general appearance(guy screams Barry Allen) and his age(29 or 30 I believe) the perfect age for a multi-picture superhero franchise.

And I would like Stephen Amell’s Green Arrow, but that isn’t likely because they don’t want his character leaving the non-super-powered neighborhood. Everybody says they can’t have Christian Bale’s Batman in the Justice League because “he doesn’t play well with others” but in TDKR he tracks down Catwoman for help, and fights alongside the police officers in the street. In the Dark Knight he calls on Lucius Fox to use the devise with all the blue screens for help. And we need Yvonne’s Black Canary and Erica’s Wonder Woman because comics have been getting referred to as sexist and DC will bet Marvel’s Avengers’ amount of girls on their original roster. And Zac Efron or Chris Pine will also get teenage girls to go see it. BUT, YOU DON’T WANT TO MAKE THE TEAM TOO BIG!!!!! because then you won’t be able to develop characters as deep as Marvel did and the story may become hard to follow!

Hhmmmm….still thinking. Barry Allen as Flash, for sure, but still scratching my head over the perfect actor for the portrayal. I do know we need a Flash movie, and another Green Lantern movie (Reynolds again as Hal Jordan…just fix the problems like bad script, dump the bedroom scenes and cornball humor). Sinestro plot-line is too good to lose out on. Or how about Sinestro and Professor Zoom (Reverse Flash) against Hal and Barry in a team-up movie? Can’t get a more awesome and evenly-matched set of contenders for a super-sized cage match than that!

@Goldilocks: I’m with you 100%. The Screen Rant Underground cast and I mentioned doing a team-up film with Barry and Hal since they’re a fantastic duo, but I do think they could work in their own environments.

If the next GL film (with Reynolds, like you said) goes the Sinestro route, that’s more than enough reason to bring in John Stewart or Guy Gardner to swell the Sector 2814 ranks, against an awesome villain and his army, no less.

The Flash could build off plenty, especially if the writers build out Heat Wave or another Rogue into a formidable enough foe to maybe call on GL or WW. Save Reverse Flash for the sequel, and things getting REALLY serious.

I could see Bradley Cooper or Chris Pine as the Flash. Joel Edgerton, not so much. I could, however, see him as a pretty good Batman. I hope DC can dig themselves out of the whole they got themselves into and make a Justice League movie on par with Avengers

Some of those are not bad but I don’t know if I’m 100% sold on any of them and wondering if there isn’t someone better. Unfortunately I don’t have any suggestions on who the perfect person would be.

And Patrick Wilson is the perfect Hank Pym, not Flash.

AND……would people PLEASE stop listing Bale as playing Batman?!!! He is done with the role, gone, moved on and will not be returning. Only by an act of Nolan would Bale even think about considering it and Nolan is not going to be directing JL. So get over it and move on already.

I hate how people keep bringing up Olivia Wylde, Adrian Palicki, or blah!!! Megan Fox to play Wonder Woman. Gina Corano is a former MMA fighter and has both the beauty and Braun to carry the role. Just watch the film Haywire of her beating down Channing Tatum in the opening scene and you will realize she is the only actress who should be cast to play Diana.

Best in the world..If JL is on par with avengers then im going to be very dissapointed, I found avengers to be a bore, massivly overated, JL could smash that easily if done right, cos in terms of superheros, DC has the hardest hitters..